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*Was braced to hate tonight's Glee, which would have been a shame, as there was a Prince number, and I love Prince. But as it turns out, I enjoyed it immensely. "And remember. Everyone has a random." BWAH!
*The poetry workshop series for the Worcester Adult Education Program has been canceled. Not enough registrations, although I suspect that might be in part because it was impossible to easily direct people on how to register. I don't know. Hopefully, the workshop series will pop up again independently, because it was a pretty good looking program, and one I think people would pay a few bucks a class, for. Hell, for the folks at Ballard Street, I'll gladly work for tips. They do good work.
I actually have a bad history with those sorts of programs. I took a couple of poetry workshops through one of them when I was in my early teens, but I had to drop out because I couldn't afford it. In retrospect, I don't think I ever asked anyone in my family for help, but I was young, and always hated asking for anything, back then, especially something that seemed as frivolous as a poetry workshop. (Who knew it would turn out to be the cornerstone of my entire life?) Still, learning how to ask for help was hard. I'm still not great at it. I keep wondering if there's some teenager like I used to be, wondering around Worcester, who could use that sort of workshop, and then I remember that they have that, here, what with Alex Charalambides' work with the youth slam, and the workshops he Nick Davis do occasionally through WCPA. Kids are luckier these days. That's a good thing. I'm glad people like Alex and Nick are out there.
Still, I'm up for a beginner's workshop series if other people are.
*Lea and Lisa's anthology, Knocking at the Door , is imminent, and I'm very excited. Lots of good poems in there, by a very unlikely collection of poets.
*Radius is near bursting with good stuff, including a poem by Rachel McKibbens, two poems by Randall Horton, and Robert Bohm's Kashmir journal. And still lots of good stuff on deck.
And of course, Radius is always open for submissions. Just be sure to take a look at the guidelines, as our needs are rather specialized.
*The poetry workshop series for the Worcester Adult Education Program has been canceled. Not enough registrations, although I suspect that might be in part because it was impossible to easily direct people on how to register. I don't know. Hopefully, the workshop series will pop up again independently, because it was a pretty good looking program, and one I think people would pay a few bucks a class, for. Hell, for the folks at Ballard Street, I'll gladly work for tips. They do good work.
I actually have a bad history with those sorts of programs. I took a couple of poetry workshops through one of them when I was in my early teens, but I had to drop out because I couldn't afford it. In retrospect, I don't think I ever asked anyone in my family for help, but I was young, and always hated asking for anything, back then, especially something that seemed as frivolous as a poetry workshop. (Who knew it would turn out to be the cornerstone of my entire life?) Still, learning how to ask for help was hard. I'm still not great at it. I keep wondering if there's some teenager like I used to be, wondering around Worcester, who could use that sort of workshop, and then I remember that they have that, here, what with Alex Charalambides' work with the youth slam, and the workshops he Nick Davis do occasionally through WCPA. Kids are luckier these days. That's a good thing. I'm glad people like Alex and Nick are out there.
Still, I'm up for a beginner's workshop series if other people are.
*Lea and Lisa's anthology, Knocking at the Door , is imminent, and I'm very excited. Lots of good poems in there, by a very unlikely collection of poets.
*Radius is near bursting with good stuff, including a poem by Rachel McKibbens, two poems by Randall Horton, and Robert Bohm's Kashmir journal. And still lots of good stuff on deck.
And of course, Radius is always open for submissions. Just be sure to take a look at the guidelines, as our needs are rather specialized.
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